Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONChristianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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